Always remeber my father's sky blue mk5 cortina. It went in for work to ford and they gave him a mk2 fiesta as a courtesy car. He was loading my then 2 year old brother into the backseat with the driver seat tilted forward. My brother pulled the driver seat back and it locked into place with my father's head stuck between the drivers seat and the b-pillar, i've never laughed so hard in all my life!!!
I bet that it'll need a fair bit of work too - if it's been stored all these years without fluids, there's bound to be a rust coating inside the cylinders.
It'll be interesting to see what it fetches, although rare, it's not a patch on the Mk3 and represents the start of the 80's in its design - all lines courtesy of set-squares and rulers with the only curves being the wheels!
Exactly the same model that my Dad had in 1980. HEW 773W!
2.0 GL marked out from the "L" with velour seats, proper headrests instead of the A frames and shiny chrome trims for the steel wheels! And tinted glass.
I used to work in a ford dealers and drove many of them.
Favourites were estates bought by many a jobbing joiner, they didnt stay in my hands for long as people loved a good pinto.
Fav I suppose were the run out crusader models,Ghia/S models.
Amazing on a roundabout and setting the points with a fag packet was Brill.
main mod done in our garage was a Sierra 5 speed box,chassis leg took a mash hammering though.
I remember the Mk4 Cortina,s well - within a short space of time the bottom of the front wings would rot, become detached, and you could hear them "flapping" in the wind as you drove along. Lately these old Fords - which we thought were smelly old rot boxes - are commanding very high prices !.
Does anyone remember the traumatic experience of driving up behind a Ford Orion ?. Despite turning off the air vents in your own car, and wearing a surgeons mask, you could still smell the lovely rich aroma of burnt four star fuel !.
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